ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF 



BRITISH BIRDS. 



INSESSORES. PICIDM. 



SCANSORES. 



PLATE CXXXVI. 



BARRED WOODPECKER. 

 Picus minor. {Linn.) 



The Barred Woodpecker is the smallest of the wood- 

 peckers hitherto found in Britain, and is not so rare as is 

 generally supposed ; but owing to its small size, and the 

 restless activity of its habits, it is easily hidden from view 

 by the foliage of the trees amongst which it labours for 

 its sustenance. Mr. Selby speaks of having met with this 

 species in Hertfordshire, and Mr. Yarrell gives us to 

 understand that it is not uncommon in the vicinity of Lon- 

 don ; we ourselves have met with it in Surrey amongst elm 

 and beech trees, and not unfrequently hard at work on the 

 mossy branches of an apple-tree. The habits and manners 

 of this species resemble those of its family previously de- 

 void IV. B 



